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Life is more fun if you play games.

Roald Dahl

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Memories School Shoes Stair
Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard
We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
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Dreamer Dreams Inspirational Reality
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Alcohol Candy Humour One Liner Quick

Life is more fun if you play games.

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